Projects
Hawaii Computer-Human Interaction Lab
Funded Projects
- Social Search and Deliberation in Digital Political Information and Collaboration Domains (NSF IIS-1064852, 2011-ongoing)
Participation in political debate and deliberation is critical to democracy. Browsing political material is a direct way of acquiring knowledge about civic activities, the operations of government, and the issues of the day. This project examines a fast growing, but little understood new type of political participation: online information seeking, deliberation and decision making in the context of Web 2.0 technologies. The research includes three intertwined threads of study: (a) user-centered design of enhancements to a search/browse tool and a cross-application, user-generated interlinkage browser; (b) laboratory studies of how potential voters browse and make decisions in social computing environments; and (c) longitudinal observation of users of novel, socially-enabled political search/browse tools through at least three U.S. election cycles. [MORE] - Digital Deliberation: Searching and Deciding About How to Vote (NSF IIS-0535036 and 0827911, 2006-2010)
This project involved the development of an understanding of how people use emerging information technologies to learn, remember, reason about, and make decisions in the context of civic and government activities. There is very broad impact of the proposal in that resulting systems could influence citizens of many backgrounds and circumstances, and can be utilized by developers and implementation decision makers in governments, private organizations, and academic settings. The educational goals of the project include the production of digital government systems that encourage learning about civic issues by citizens. The goal of making digital government work for all citizens, with specific attention to issues of equity and the digital divide, addresses diversity goals. [MORE] - VotesBy.US
A front-end to Google that helps people search for information about political candidates and issues.
Affiliated Projects
- Coherence Based Modeling of Cultural Change and Political Violence
Co-PI with Sun-Ki Chai and David Chin to study and develop the HCI part of a simulation environment for predicting political violence based on changes in cultural identities. Funded by a grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to Dr. Chai as the Principle Investigator.
Thesis and Dissertation Projects
- Lyneth Peou (M.S. 2011): Utilizing an information sharing network to improve the voter eligibility verification process in the U.S. voter registration system.
- Evan Yazawa (M.S. 2010): Evolving user interfaces using interactive genetic algorithms.
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